-As far as we know, in the Buryat tradition it
was forbidden to laugh or to cry too
much. How do our emotions
affect our health?

– They do affect a lot. Recently
there was a member of North Korean national football team who had a heart attack on the field, his heart stopped after
the joy of victory. Excessive joy has an impact
on the physical body. The
reason is the attachment to the result,
fanaticism which is in fact an unconscious aggression. You have to be humble and quiet. "There
are many high andintelligent but the truth is revealed to humble ones."

- Well, lets’ remember the
tradition. The
Buryats didn’t mourn for the dead, it was necessary to restrain any manifestation
of grief and be reserved, while it was accepted to grieve and mourn the passed
away relatives loudly among Russians. Which
way is accepted more?

-
There is a tale, in which the Sultan sent three tax collectors to the poor. The
first time the poor ones were crying inconsolably, second time they cried even
louder, and third time they were laughing ... And then the Sultan said:
"Enough is enough, they have nothing else." When
all is lost, and there is nothing to be attached to, the man finds freedom and
independence. Crying
helps to relieve stress, but the extremes should be avoided.

According
to Buddhist tradition, people do not cry in order to release the passed away
person, to let him quietly go away into another world. But a good cry and then letting
it go also helps. Because
"keeping" the dead person and reminding yourself of how good it used
to be when he or she was alive is selfishness. There are people around
you that need more of your attention. Tradition is not bad and is not good. It's just a tradition.

- What happens
to those who suppress their emotions too much?

-
Diabetes, for example, occurs to those who keep themselves in tension. In
Tibetan medicine book “Chzhud-shi" it says that all diseases come from the
root of ignorance. When
people are attached to something too much, at first glance, even to positive
things: to work, to the result and even to spirituality, honesty and generosity,
it can be dangerous. When a person is too honest, he begins at some point to
oppose himself to the rest of people - dishonest, low, from his point of view. And this is pride.

When
a person hates the dishonest and unjust it is an aggression which transforms
into a program of self-destruction. When
a person gets very angry and agitated, his blood, liver, pancreas produces a
huge amount of bile and hormones are disturbed. Islets
of Langerhans, responsible for the production of insulin, begin to break down. Accordingly, blood sugar gets
increased. Glaucoma
is also the case with those who excessively accumulate the anger and tension. Eyes
are associated with the liver; you can even say that the eyes are the windows
of the liver.

-
It means that only the people who are "ignorant" get affected by
diseases. So we can now
declare that all sick patients are to blame for their own illnesses.

- No. If
you think arrogantly about those who are sick, that they are ignorant, that
they are not wise enough, or intelligent enough, and so on, it’s a straight
path for yourself to become sick. Shakyamuni
Buddha predicted that there will be times when people will get infections and
will suffer tumors. Everyone
is exposed to the root of ignorance, we are all humans. Sometimes, people say, what a good
person! In this
evaluation there is an error: good for who? For you and, let’s say for your
relatives?

But for
others maybe he was not that good, maybe even bad. All is relative. The
way a person looks and talks does not always correspond to his inner spirit, his
fate. Maybe a
person is too attached to the mind, the intellect. These people, by the
way, often suffer sugar jumps. They begin to despise the dumb,
stupid. But in that
"stupidity" in simplicity there is sometimes more wisdom. This
"stupid" in some ways is much wiser than "smart", who
collects all the negativity in himself.

- What is a
disease from your point of view?

- Disease is a block. When
we start to get attached to something too much we begin self-destruct program. The disease prevents us from
rapid decay.

Theoretically a person
without disease would have, simply, quickly fall apart. But the disease blocks it, gives him
warning signs. My
teacher told the patient: "Those who have the blood sugar high, need to
get angry a bit, to cry, let emotions to get out." And the
patient was a very intelligent man, he liked to hold everything in himself. No wonder people say : Speak it
all out , Cry it all out. In
this sense the crying is useful.

- And why there is
such a growing number of diseases?

-
"Chzhud-shi" explains where the diseases, infections, epidemics,
cancer are coming from. We
often talk about the environment. We chop trees;
violate the laws of the universe. In the old times there
was a saying: Do not cut trees near water. It is very dangerous, it's a
disaster. Water
begins to change its structure and to deteriorate. "Chzhud-shi" says people will start
to pollute the Earth, and the spirits of Earth and Water will start to take
revenge. Universe is a whole
organism. We are
all in some way connected. And he,
who does not cut the trees, is still responsible. Our life is a chain of causes and
effects.

- So we are in inevitable trouble? For the
people, some antibiotics do not help already ...

-
One doctor urologist told me that sometimes very expensive antibiotics do not
help to cure the infection. But
Tibetan medicine has a wide range of natural remedies to fight infections. Just it takes longer time. Medications
are attributed according to the type of constitution of man: wind, bile,
phlegm. There
are women's diseases caused by dangerous winds, there are those that are caused
by the danger of blood.

Dangers
of wind are various and severe endometriosis with chronic diseases of the
pelvic organs. Dangers
of Blood are endometritis, with arterial hypertension. Everything is determined by pulse. Cinnamon,
cardamom, asparagus, mustard, Paeoniaroot in the right proportions increase the
body heat. Chung,
aconite, musk and other herbal remedies fight infections.

-It is autumn now. What we should be aware of
in autumn?

- Reduced
activity of kidney heat or "cold in the kidney," arises from the fact
that people are wrong about their clothing, things they put on. To
this also contributes the consumption of beer. And
then we have requests to cure prostatitis, because people do not know that it
is associated with the consumption of beer.

Beer is cold by its properties.
If
you drink it when it is chilled, it begins to oppress the heat of the stomach,
the kidneys. This
provokes male and female diseases. Pregnancy
problems, infertility arise from the lack of heat in the body by the kidneys. Excessive
consumption of beer triggers these diseases.

-
What you should drink to stay healthy during the cold season?

- It is better to
drink warm boiled water. To think that boiled
water is dead is prejudice. Contrary
to Western trends Tibetologists do not believe that people should drink two
liters of clean water a day. Drinking
norms depend on the season, the constitution of man, the nature of his work and
eating habits.

Drinking cold water
cools the stomach, pancreas, liver and colon. Sipping
cold water from a bottle like in American tradition, you can "earn"
diabetes. Excess
of water reduces function of the pancreas, which leads to a special type of
diabetes. People
with constitution type "bile” that always feel hot, can drink water more. But it is better, if it is warm.

- Going back to the emotions. What is the impact on our health when we
get upset on somebody and keep the hurt inside?

-
Even the smallest hurt has a destructive force. Most often it affects the
kidneys. Women
often get upset on men, to fathers and thus disturb the harmony of yin and yang-,
the unity of opposites. Getting upset
on somebody means a subconscious hatred, wishing a death to the offender. When
it accumulates, it inhibits the kidneys and affects women's health. The same way for men. Those
who get upset on women begin to suffer male problem. These are very simple examples. Consequences of
injuries are very diverse and heavy.

- What other emotions
harm health?

- Regretting. Ignorance
breeds desire, the desire turns into addiction, attachment, which always
generates aggression. For
example, young couple fell in love, they love and desire each other. Attachment obscures true love.
One of them makes this feeling as an end result which leads to increased
jealousy, suspicion, desire to subjugate.

Regretting is also
an aggression to time. Person begins to
reproach himself why did I do that? Repentance is a way to put
an end to regret. Do
not reproach yourself again, and take a vow that from now on it will never
happen again. You
should not regret also about what has not yet been done. On a more subtle level,
there is no past and no future.

D. Batudaeva

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